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Maven Announcement plugin

Generates release announcements. It takes information from the
POM and from the changes.xml file and using a template
generates release information.

Example

Here is a sample announcement:

The maven team is pleased to announce the Maven Announcement plugin 1.1
release!
http://maven.apache.org/maven-1.x/plugins/announcement/
The Announcement plugin generates release announcements. It uses the
information found in both the POM and in the changes.xml file to generate the
announcement text.
Changes in this version include:
New Features:
o Added description information from the POM to the generated announcement to
explain what the project does.
o Added information in the generated announcement to indicate from where the
plugin can be downloaded.
o Added information in the generated announcement to indicate how to install
the plugin using the plugin:download goal.
o Added more information when running the plugin. Also added a check to
verify if the announcement version matches an entry in the changes.xml
file. Fixes MPANNOUNCEMENT-2. Thanks to Fabrizio Giustina.
o Several new additions that makes the plugin more generic: the team name is
now taken from pom.groupId, "[]" are removed from the first line, changes
are sorted by type, changes report issue number and due-to, the download
link is generated from pom.distributionDirectory and the "plugin has been
tested with..." line has been removed. Fixes MPANNOUNCEMENT-1. Thanks to
Fabrizio Giustina.
Fixed bugs:
o Add a space after the "." of the "Fixes xxx." (which happens when you use
the "issue" attribute in changes.xml).
Changes:
o Added maven.announcement.file property and echo'd it during generation
To automatically install the plugin, type the following on a single line:
maven plugin:download
-DgroupId=maven
-DartifactId=maven-announcement-plugin
-Dversion=1.1
For a manual installation, you can download the Maven Announcement plugin
here:
http://repo1.maven.org/maven/maven/plugins/maven-announcement-plugin-1.1.jar
Have fun!
-The development team